[52] From the Century Magazine, January 1883.
[53] The figure in Insectivorous Plants representing the aggregated cell-contents was drawn by him.
[54] Life and Letters, vol. iii. frontispiece.
[55] The basket in which she usually lay curled up near the fire in his study is faithfully represented in Mr. Parson's drawing given at the head of the chapter.
[56] Cf. Leslie Stephen's Swift, 1882, p. 200, where Swift's inspection of the manners and customs of servants are compared to my father's observations on worms, "The difference is," says Mr. Stephen, "that Darwin had none but kindly feelings for worms."
[57] The words, "A good and dear child," form the descriptive part of the inscription on her gravestone. See the Athenæum, Nov. 26, 1887.
[58] Some pleasant recollections of my father's life at Down, written by our friend and former neighbour, Mrs. Wallis Nash, have been published in the Overland Monthly (San Francisco), October 1890.
[59] Darwin considéré au point de vue des causes de son succès (Geneva, 1882).
[60] My father related a Johnsonian answer of Erasmus Darwin's: "Don't you find it very inconvenient stammering, Dr. Darwin?" "No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions."
[61] This is not so much an example of superabundant theorising from a small cause as of his wish to test the most improbable ideas.